US Patent Issued on June 9 for "Safety trocar assembly" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,795, issued on June 9.

"Safety trocar assembly" was invented by Samuel Gregory Sackett (Dublin, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trocar assembly includes a deployment assembly including: a cannula having an open end; a trocar disposed in the cannula and having a spear end; and an energizer acting on the trocar and configured to force the trocar from a safety position where the spear end is entirely within the cannula to an extended position where the spear end extends out of the open end; a key releasably coupled with the trocar and extending through the cannula such that the key holds the trocar in the safety position when coupl...